Platform Backend Engineer (Go, Distributed Systems & Event Streaming)

Location: Remote

Company

hirify.global provides AI-powered IT management and cybersecurity software for Managed Service Providers and internal IT organizations worldwide.

What you will do

• Build and operate distributed systems powering event processing, workflow execution, and shared platform services.
• Develop high-throughput event pipelines, reliable messaging, and backend services for automation and AI-enabled workflows.
• Design and maintain event-driven architecture and production services in Go and Kubernetes.
• Troubleshoot distributed production systems, including performance, observability, and reliability issues.

Requirements

• Experience building and operating production backend services using Go.
• Experience designing event-driven or streaming systems with Kafka, Numaflow, Flink, or similar technologies.
• Experience developing distributed systems that handle retries, idempotency, ordering, backpressure, and failure recovery.
• Experience building or operating containerized services with Kubernetes in production.
• Experience troubleshooting production distributed systems, including performance, observability, and reliability issues.

Nice to have

• Experience with Numaflow, Apache Flink, Kafka Streams, or other distributed stream-processing platforms.
• Experience building Kubernetes-native platforms, operators, or custom controllers.
• Experience with Temporal or another durable workflow orchestration platform.
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms, identity, authorization, or secrets management.
• Experience with event ingestion, CDC, data pipelines, or real-time processing infrastructure.
• Experience with GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, or cloud-native infrastructure automation.
• Experience with ClickHouse, analytical data stores, or event-driven audit systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement.
• Equal employment opportunity is provided without regard to legally protected characteristics.